Wilderness First Aid: Emergency Care for Remote Locations | 
 enlarge | Authors: National Safety Council/wilderness Medical Society, Howard D. Backer
Publisher: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc.
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 209298
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 350
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0763704075
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.0252
EAN: 9780763704070
ASIN: 0763704075
Publication Date: November 19, 1997
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Product Description
This indispensable book provides instant, up-to-date information on how to handle common injuries and illnesses when medical care is an hour or more away.
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Wilderness First Aid for the real world outdoorsman July 8, 2003
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
This book is a comprehensive guide to First Aid in the wilderness. It points out many injuries and illnesses that you'd commonly find while in the wilderness, and easy-to-follow explainations of what they are, what caused them, how to prevent them, and how to treat them. This is perfect for a Boy Scout or Girl Scout class in First Aid for an upcoming trip; as I use it as the text for the class I teach.
The only area I would say that it is lacking in is the serious, life-threatening injuries, ie cardiopulmonary arrest, tension pneumothorax, etc. However, to be perfectly honest, in the wilderness, injuries like that are very difficult to survive if you are not easily acessable by EMS. Additionally, those injuries are complex, and the treatments aren't always easy to do in the wilderness, much to the contrary, in fact. So understanding them might be important to the field leader, but I don't dwell on the severe injuries too much when I teach because they are difficult to understand, and the treatment is always "Get them to an ambulace and to a hospital as fast as you can."I highly recommend this book for all Wilderness First aid, and for Mountaineering First Aid.
Excellant Comprehensive Basic and Advanced First Aid Book June 26, 1999
16 out of 17 found this review helpful
This is an excellant book especially if you have no experience at all in dealing with emergancy first aid. It give clear, consice information on everything from simple to complete lacerations, emergancy child birth to what to have in a First Aid Kit. Extremely well written and easy to understand.
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